[games_access] Toyota: Mobility for the Blind/VI

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
I think applications like this are like home robots. They are in the minds
of people, but the technology is not yet there to make them work as
advertised. OCR software is just not good enough yet. (There is still a
person reading my OCRed books for school).
But it is really nice that they are trying to do something.
I would really like to see them send orientation and mobility specialists
to Russia and China where there are millions of blind people who are not
able to walk out of their rooms because they are blind.

How could someone improve the effectiveness of an app such as Aipoli using
a game? I'm sure all that is needed is just a *** load of immages in the DB.
So what kind of game would inspire people to take pictures of stuff and
label the images?

Perhaps a 3D game where the land is featureless unless people take pictures
of stuff and label them, then based off their labels the game will insert
them into a location. It could be a game about anything, but just with the
idea that people take pictures of stuff and insert them into their world.

Another idea is that one could create a contest for people to take as many
pictures of an object as possible and tag the picture with other words. So
for example, if the challenge was doors, people would take pictures of
doggy doors, fairy doors, ant doors...

If one had a DB of like 1000000000 pictures that were tagged, companies
with apps that identify items like this would really love access!
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Dan Fischbach <blindwolf8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just saw this and I'm thinking indoor navigation for the blind and VI is
> going to get a hell of a lot easier with this and Project Tango:
>
> http://www.toyota.com/usa/story/effect/index.html
>
> Of course, game applications are always possible. :-)
>
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